Nice try, social media.
Water from the kitchen faucet. I better not tell them though. Some TikTok post about it will go viral and that will be the end of it for those of us who just want to stay hydrated in peace.
Green ball Christmas torts
Could you please elaborate on what this is? Is the green jelly mint jelly?
It’s vihreä kuula tort, made from putting a half of Finnish pear marmelade candy on it.
pear is my favorite fruit. I will now spend my day figuring out how to get these candies. Edit: I found it on amazon. I don’t want to give amazon my money, but I’m willing to make an exception just this once.
You could just order them straight from them producer.
https://www.fazer.com/en/products/fazer-green-jellies-500g-p404231/
The German Mettbrötchen is known, but the world is too scared to ruin it.
The rest of us would ruin it by cooking the minced pork, then serving it on the bread.
McDonald’s tried it and named it the McRib. It’s not very good.
I like the McRib. One of McD’s better sandwiches, IMO.
I want it sometimes. I wouldn’t say I like it.
Yes, but Mettigel is where it’s really at. Do I need to mention Mettigel Hawaii?
As a German: There’s nothing to ruin, it’s already shit
Blasphemy!
§166 StGB
(2) Ebenso wird bestraft, wer öffentlich oder durch Verbreiten eines Inhalts (§ 11 Absatz 3) eine im Inland bestehende Kirche oder andere Religionsgesellschaft oder Weltanschauungsvereinigung, ihre Einrichtungen oder Gebräuche in einer Weise beschimpft, die geeignet ist, den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören.
Sehe ich hier, deutsche Mettkultur ist mir wichtiger als das Christentum
Tepache. It’s a Mexican fermented drink made with pineapple peels, piloncillo, and a few spices. It’s delicious, refreshing, and super cheap… well, until some entrepreneur eventually discovers it and makes it ultra processed and expensive.
Homemade hot and sour soup with so many mushrooms that you have diarrhea 15 minutes later
Also: string cheese sticks torn lengthwise, lined up on a plate, and then hit with a searzall before getting a few dollops of whatever Italian spiced tomato sauce is in the fridge. I call it “plate pizza” and it makes my wife sad to see me eat it.
As someone who doesn’t eat mushrooms, I had no idea they could give you diarrhea.
As someone who loves mushrooms, yeah they don’t do that to me
Only if you try hard enough. I mean, you gotta make a lot of poor choices all at once.
Typically, mushrooms pass relatively well, especially if you chew them well. “Chewing well” is not one of my strongest skills, especially while eating soup. Since mushrooms contain a lot of chitin, not chewing them well before swallowing gives you a bunch of indigestible chunks that your body just kinda fast-tracks.
Also, as someone with GERD and IBS who frequently makes poor dietary choices, I cook my hot and sour soup with ingredients that are extra-exciting. Such as enough white chili powder to get me sweating.
While confirming my understanding of how I turn myself into a fungi fire hose, I learned about FODMAP and the must likely reason why I’ve been crazy gassy in these weeks when I’ve made hot and sour soup most days of the week. Sometimes multiple times a day. I’m eating some right now…
I didn’t realize they contained a lot of chitin. That’s cool. Haha, good luck with those!
Well obviously you should share with your wife. Dont just eat it all in front of her.
When I offer her some, and says, “please no,” and looks genuinely concerned.
How does social media ruin a food? Can’t one just make the meal???
How social media can ruin a food? You can just ignore that, the food is still the same, it’s you who are ruined.
It could drive up prices. Like matcha.
Everyone is obsessed with ruining Pizza, so our regional “Dünnele” (or I think “Dinnete” for Swabians) is very unharmed. Like, if someone sells “Dünnele” I’ve never seen them be shit or butchered.
Crystal light 5kcal, no sugar packets. Tastes like candy, but nothing bad in it for you.
Poland: pickle soup.
I’m intrigued.
Don’t tell them! They will ruin it!
I don’t use mainstream social media, so none of my family’s cultural food gets ruined B)
Frybread
There are like a thousand white people frybread recipes on the internet that have so many bewildering ingredients for something that usually only has three.
Regional drinks I am sure the same is true elsewhere in the world, but in the US one way regional identities struggle to persist is consumption of regional sodas. I’m from Mass and have always loved Moxie (the soda’s brand is the origin of that word) and coffee milk. I’ve always enjoyed trying other drinks when I travel. I think Vernors is my favorite from “abroad.”
Moxie is horrible but I respect that y’all like it. It’s like if malort was a soft drink
I love regional drinks as a quick and cheap way to check out local food culture!
Coffee milk sounded so good and I bought 2 tall bottles to bring home with me. It was… interesting… 😁
I maybe had 3 glasses trying to “get it right” but it may have just not been for me, but I still think about it after 10+ years, so it made a lasting impression, if nothing else.
Cheerwine is possibly my favorite regional soda, but Dr Enuf was good too. I had the red one, as it looked like the Cheerwine on the same trip.
In Pennsylvania, A-treat is still around under new owners, and people seem to be surprised by the clear birch beer.
I’ve bought Dr. Enuf deliberately more than once, but I’m not sure I would call it good. 😂 Both flavors taste like cough syrup to me. I’d like to try birch beer, but I haven’t seen anything like that around here.
I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!
I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.
A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There’s a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.
That sounds like a lot of fun. The historical soda/medicines are so interesting. I’ll have to take a look at that store.
It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.
It’s Lincoln’s P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.
They advertised top notch pancakes, which I’m usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.
